On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > On 7/20/2011 19:50, William Robb wrote: >> On 20/07/2011 2:02 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >>> >> >> >>> Like Christine , I feel uncomfortable shooting the unfortunate and while >>> that photo of Shel's is powerful it is also maudlin (skipping around to >>> referencing other posts here - sorry) and cruel. >>> >> >> I'm going to challenge you on that one Ann. Lets presume for the sake of >> discussion that the story under the picture is true (and I have no >> reason to believe otherwise, and neither should you). > > Story under the picture?... I didn't see anthing but the photo... hmmm. > >> With that in mind, the subject new the camera was present, and I expect >> new he was being photographed. Without going back and looking, I believe >> Shel mentioned he had shot most of a roll of film on that subject. >> So, the subject was knowingly being photographed in what had >> unfortunately become his natural environment. >> I'll agree with the maudlin part, but cruel? > (well, projecting here... you know why) > >> There had to have been at least a tacit approval on the subject's part >> regarding the image being shot, and one would presume that had he >> objected, the image wouldn't have been made (though this would depend >> entirely on how sensitive Shel was that day). > > Difference between what Shel chose to show others and someone knowing > he was taking their photo... > >> >> How is Shel's picture, taken with the subject's permission any more >> cruel than this one by Paul, more obviously with permission I'll admit, >> for example:
I paid the guy five bucks to take his photo. He wasn't being taken advantage of. He earned some money. Paul >> >> http://pug.komkon.org/LX_Gallery/Gallery_index.html > > Well for one thing, the guy is looking straight at Paul... > for another, unless you read Paul's story about it, he is just a guy > who kinda looks like some peoples idea of what Jesus looked like or > would have looked like and I certainly couldn't tell he was holding money.. > looks like note paper since he has a pen in his hand. I can't > tell he is begging from looking at the photo. I don't remember the photo tho > I surely should becuase of where it is.. that is in the LX gallery. > > ann > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
